A data strategy to enable reliable energy supply for everyone
TenneT owns and operates 25,000 kilometers of high-voltage cables in the Netherlands and northern Germany. Every day, TenneT transmits electricity to 43 million people in The Netherlands and a large part of Germany. Safely and reliably, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year.
THEIR QUESTION
Help us to create a Data Strategy that results in a common view on and approach to accelerating the energy transition with smart data-driven solutions. The Data Strategy needs to:
- Be understood and supported by the key executives, business and technology organization stakeholders
- Be actionable and with that initiate actual change
- Provide a more long-term perspective on how the business can optimally use data in the future for innovative solutions
OUR ANSWER
Anderson MacGyver engaged with key TenneT stakeholders and went through the following process:
- Creating a common understanding of the value of data for TenneT
- Defining and prioritizing concrete opportunities to harvest more value of data
- Assessing current issues and opportunities around the pursuit of these opportunities
- Establishing key themes and principles based on the above analysis; themes included topics such as cloud data platform, data talent development, federative data operating model, strengthening of data management, self-service, data literacy and genAI enablement & governance
- Defining goals, key decisions & principles per theme
- Based on this, creating a complete and congruent execution roadmap covering all themes
- Creating the Data Strategy Execution program plan and initiating the execution
- Supporting the respective theme leads in their execution of the roadmap
IMPACT+
TenneT Digital & Data team achieved a common and approved strategy for accelerating the energy transition with smart data-driven solutions. TenneT-wide budget and resourcing are allocated and multiple initiatives are delivering impact. Examples of these initiatives are:
- Migration to a modern cloud data platform
- Simplification of landscape through the migration of optimization of information products
- Delivery of more and better data at the users’ fingertips through accelerated provisioning of certified self-service data products
- Design of and data quality use-case driven implementation of a federated data governance operating model; with clearer ownership and enhanced cross-unit collaboration
- Controlled acceleration of genAI use cases supported by the newly formed genAI Center of Competence
A participative approach was taken. Anderson MacGyver stepped into the TenneT organization and worked alongside the TenneT teams. Key TenneT stakeholders were actively involved in the definition of the Data Strategy and with that a smooth transition from strategy definition to execution was achieved. TenneT specific business & data knowledge and Anderson MacGyver approaches & industry experience were synergized.
The Data Strategy Execution program relies on business use cases. Through this approach to operationalization strategy into detailed design and implementation of changes, it is ensured that implementation remains business relevant and delivers real impact.
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“Anderson MacGyver is hands-on way and goes beyond PowerPoint. It is about understanding and adapting to what needs to be done to achieve actual change. This is crucial for TenneT. “John Simons, Head of Digital & Data at TenneT |
CLIENT | TenneT |
INDUSTRY | Energy & Natural Resources |
LOCATION | NL, Arnhem, Gouda, Hoogeveen & Weert |
WORKFORCE | 8.000 – 9.000 |